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Former SendGrid developer evangelist Adria Richards has broken her silence. Last week, Richards publicly called out on Twitter two men who were making arguably sexual jokes about dongles and forking at the PyCon tech conference. That tweet resulted in both one of the men and Richards herself losing their jobs. It also...

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Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I have many interests: mountain biking, martial arts, video games, running, reading, cooking and horror movies. For each one of these, there is an internet rabbit hole so deep,...

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While ZigBee hasn't become as ubiquitous in wireless as the likes of Bluetooth or WiFi, it has carved out niches in home automation and low-power gear. The format is about to expand its world a little further now that a more network-savvy spec, ZigBee IP, is officially available for...

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Travelers face a dilemma: they'll often leave a phone in airplane mode to avoid expensive roaming rates or a foreign SIM, but staying offline can break the translation services that might prove vital in a strange land. Google must have heard their plight, as a new version of Google...

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I’m at Citrix corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the presentations by the nine members of the second class of the Alchemist Accelerator group. It’s quite an eclectic class for the B2B accelerator. The Alchemist Group is a new, venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage enterprise...

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Building on its recent advancements in JavaScript optimization, Mozilla has announced a partnership with Epic Games that will bring the Unreal Engine 3 to Firefox. Unlike the ill-fated InstantAction, this gives developers the opportunity to port high-end titles to the web without the use of plugins. Hardly content with...

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Still feelin’ all ragey about the way Bravo portrayed the Valley in Start-Ups? Worried Mike Judge won’t do it right (wait, does Mike Judge ever do anything not-right?) with his upcoming Silicon Valley HBO comedy series? A new challenger approaches! Amazon has just announced that they’ve greenlit a pilot of...

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The 103,257 square-foot hangar will house Stratolaunch’s aircraft during assembly and testing stages. The world’s largest aircraft needs a ginormous place to live, and that’s exactly what Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch has built. Stratolaunch Systems, the commercial space venture backed by the Microsoft co-founder, just opened a new hangar for the world’s...

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison minced few words in calling out IBM on Tuesday, proclaiming that his company's new chips and the servers that use them are both much faster and much cheaper than Big Blue's. IBM didn't take the bait that day, but now has a few words for its...

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The latest US appropriations bill, signed into law just this week, includes a provision that is likely to further raise tensions between the country and China. The provision requires the Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, NASA, and the NSF to perform a formal assessment of risk of cyber-espionage...